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(Editor's Note: This story, originally published on Dec. 5, was updated on Dec. 6.) Pointing to high costs and a US skills shortage, Taiwanese chip manufacturer TSMC has reported challenges to the completion by next December of its new 4 nanometer semiconductor plant north of Phoenix, according to a story in The Wall Street Journal on Dec. 5. “The $12 billion Arizona semiconductor plant under construction that President Biden is visiting Tuesday represents U.S. hopes for a renaissance in manufacturing, but the Taiwanese company building it says it won’t be easy,” the Journal article stated. “High costs, lack of trained personnel and unexpected construction snags are among the issues cited by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. as it rushes to get the north Phoenix factory ready to start production in December 2023.”The post TSMC’s $40B US Investment: 4nm Fab Hitting Snags, 3nm Plant Construction Has Begun appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Dec. 5, 2022 — Cogniteam, creator of the Nimbus Robotic operating system designed to unify development, cloud connectivity and deployment capabilities, announced it had added in-browser simulation capabilities that allows remote teams to reduce development costs by 80 percent by eliminating the need for an in-house simulation maintenance team, expensive equipment, or cloud computing GPU […]The post Cogniteam: In-Browser Simulation Drops Robot Simulation Costs appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Abu Dhabi, 2 December 2022 — ADIA Lab, focused on basic and applied research in data and computational sciences, commenced operations today, the 51st National Day of the UAE. As part of its launch, the lab announced the composition of its advisory board, the details of its first academic collaborations and the launch of a US$100,000 research award. ADIA […]The post ADIA Lab Announces Board Members, Collaborations and Research Award appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

HPC luminary Jack Dongarra’s fascinating comments at SC22 on the low efficiency of leadership-class supercomputers highlighted by the latest High Performance Conjugate Gradients (HPCG) benchmark results will, I believe, influence the next generation of supercomputer architectures to optimize for sparse matrix computations. The upcoming technology that will help address this problem is CXL. Next generation architectures will use CXL3.0 switches to connect processing nodes, pooled memory and I/O resources into very large, coherent fabrics within a rack, and use Ethernet between racks. I call this a “Petalith” architecture (explanation below), and I think CXL will play a significant and growing role in shaping this emerging development in the high performance interconnect space.The post SC22: CXL3.0, the Future of HPC Interconnects and Frontier vs. Fugaku appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Dec. 1, 2022 — Tokyo University of Science today said researchers have combined several disciplines to investigate coercity, which is the physical property of magnetic materials that has the potential to advance electric car motor efficiency. The researchers joined together data science, materials informatics,and an extension of the Ginzburg–Landau model to explain how coercivity – physical […]The post Tokyo University of Science: Research Using Data Science, Materials Informatics May Lead to Better EV Motors appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

At AWS’s re:Invent conference yesterday, Amazon Web Servicesannounced three EC2 instances powered by new Arm-based chips designed by AWS. AWS said its Hpc7g instances on EC2, powered by new AWS Graviton3E chips, offer up to 2x better floating-point performance compared to current generation C6gn instances and up to 20 percent higher performance compared to current […]The post AWS Announces Hpc7g EC2 Instance Powered by New Arm-based Graviton3E Chip appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

FREMONT, CA — Nov. 30, 2022 — Exxact Corporation, a provider of high-performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence (AI), and data center solutions, now offers Run:ai in their solutions. This groundbreaking Kubernetes-based orchestration tool incorporates an AI-dedicated, high-performant super-scheduler tailored for managing GPU resources in AI clusters. Run:ai dynamically optimizes hardware utilization for AI workloads, enabling clusters […]The post Exxact Partners Offers Run:ai for GPU Clusters in AI Workloads appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Nov. 30, 2022 — Friday, Jan. 20, 2023 is the deadline to submit an extended abstract for presentation at the 16th Annual 2023 Energy High Performance Computing Conference hosted by the Ken Kennedy Institute at Rice University, February 28 – March 2, 2023. ​Acceptance notices will be issues on February 1. ​The conference invites prospective speakers […]The post Jan. 20 Deadline for Abstracts for Energy HPC Conference at Ken Kennedy Institute, Rice Univ. appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Boston – Nov. 30, 2022 — PASQAL, a neutral atoms quantum computing research company headquartered in Paris, today announced a collaboration agreement with Professor Hannes Bernien at the University of Chicago to advance neutral atom quantum computing. PASQAL and Bernien will accomplish this by developing new techniques for enabling high-fidelity qubit control. Bernien is a […]The post PASQAL and University of Chicago Announce Neutral Atoms Quantum Computing Collaboration appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Cerebras Systems, maker of the “dinner plate sized” AI processor, announced two alliances today, one with Cirrascale Cloud Services, provider of deep learning solutions for AVs, NLP and computer vision, and with Jasper, maker of an AI content platform for AI-based copywriting and content creation. Under the Cirrascale-Cerebras partnership, the two companies announced the availability […]The post Cerebras Announces 2 AI Partnerships – for Large Language Model Training and ‘Generative AI’ Content Creation appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN JOSE – November 29, 2022– Panzura, LLC (“Panzura”), a hybrid multi-cloud data management company, has appointed Katie McCullough to its newly created role of Chief Information Security Officer. McCullough will be responsible for security and compliance for the company and customers. The appointment follows a record turnaround since the company’s “refounding” in 2020, led […]The post Security Industry Veteran Katie McCullough Joins Panzura as Chief Information Security Officer appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

ST PAUL, Minn., November 29, 2022 — Hyperion Research, the globally recognized premier industry analyst and market intelligence firm covering high performance computing (HPC), AI, cloud, quantum, and associated emerging markets, today announced the recipients of the 17th round of HPC Innovation Excellence Awards. The 2022 winners of the HPC Innovation Awards are: — For […]The post Hyperion Research Announces Winners of 2022 HPC Innovation Excellence Awards appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Nov. 28, 2022 — LAS VEGAS– Today at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced it will be water positive (water+) by 2030, returning more water to communities than it uses in its direct operations. The company also announced its 2021 global water use efficiency (WUE) metric of 0.25 […]The post AWS Announces Water Positive Commitment by 2030 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

In this SC22 post-view, Shahin and Doug go over what happened at the supercomputing conference in Dallas last week. Topics include: the energy on the show floor and attendance, liquid cooling, PCIe, CXL, AI chips, open standards, storage, the future of supercomputing, global HPC players and where SC23 will be held and what its tagline will be!The post @HPCpodcast: An SC22 Retrospective appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

[SPONSORED CONTENT] How did you, at heart and by training a research scientist, financial analyst or product design engineer doing multi-physics CAE, how did you end up as a… systems administrator? You set out to be one thing and became something else entirely. You finished school and began working with some hefty HPC-class clusters. One […]The post Relief for the Solution Architect: Pushing Back on HPC Cluster Complexity with Warewulf and Apptainer appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory are investigating the possibility that tiny magnetic whirlpools called “skyrmions,” which are magnetic vortices as tiny as billionths of a meter, could transform memory storage in future high performance computers. Skyrmions, the Argonne researchers say, show characteristics that could overcome the shortcomings of microscopic […]The post Argonne Researchers: Tiny Magnetic ‘Whirlpools’ Could Be Game Changer for HPC Memory Technology appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

LEESBURG, Va., November 22, 2022 – Quantum solutions company Quantum Computing Inc. (QCI) (NASDAQ: QUBT) today announced the release of free software that will enable D-Wave customers to rapidly translate quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) problems into Hamiltonian equations that can then be solved by QCI’s Dirac 1 Entropy Quantum Computing (EQC) system. Using Dirac […]The post QCI Launches Free Software to Run 10,000-Variable Quantum Computing Problems appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, November 21, 2022 – Q-CTRL, a quantum control infrastructure software company, and quantum algorithm development software company Classiq have announced a partnership intended to provide an end-to-end platform for designing, executing and analyzing quantum algorithms. The new partnership will integrate Classiq‘s Quantum Algorithm Design platform with Q-CTRL‘s advanced quantum control techniques designed to […]The post Q-CTRL and Classiq Partner on Quantum Algorithm Development appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Nov. 22, 2022 — Earth Wind & Power (EWP), a leading innovator in creating a sustainable bridge between excess energy and the exponentially growing demand for green computing power, has announced the planned offtake of excess and pre-grid offshore wind power to supply electricity to data centre infrastructure in Northern Europe. “As the world tackles […]The post Earth Wind & Power to Offtake up to 400MW of Offshore Power in Northern Europe for Data Centers appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Now that the exascale (a billion billion, or 1018, calculations/second) computing barrier has been surmounted, and with discussion of zettascale-class supercomputers already in the wind, the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CPGM) has decided to add new prefixes used within the International System of Units (SI) to denote even greater compute power and data […]The post Get Ready for Ronnascale Supercomputing – and Quettascale Data Volumes appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC) is now seeking proposals for the 2023-2024 allocation year. Pre-proposals are due by 8 pm (ET) on Monday, November 28, 2022. Open to researchers from industry, academia and national laboratories, the ALCC program allocates supercomputing time at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, Oak Ridge Leadership Computing […]The post Pre-proposals for Allocations of National Lab HPC Resources Due Nov. 28 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

By Katie Elyce Jones, Editor, PillarQ As the high-performance computing (HPC) community looks beyond the brink of Moore’s Law for solutions to accelerate future systems, one technology at the forefront is quantum computing, which is amassing billions of dollars of global R&D funding each year. Perhaps it’s no surprise that HPC centers — including the […]The post Quantum Computing Users Work Alongside Classical Supercomputers: An Interview with Travis Humble at Oak Ridge Lab appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

[SPONSORED CONTENT] How many researchers can say they’ve not only run their scientific job on the AMD-powered Frontier supercomputer, the world’s no. 1 ranked HPC system and the first exascale-class machine, but also on Fugaku, Summit and Perlmutter, the world’s second-, fifh- and eighth-ranked HPC systems in the world, respectively? But that’s the case with an interntional group of researchers working on particle-in-cell simulations who have developed code that won....The post Scientists Using Frontier Supercomputer Win 2022 Gordon Bell Prize, Another Frontier Team Named Prize Finalist appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

New York, NY, November 17, 2022 – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, named a 16-member team drawn from French, Japanese, and US institutions as recipient of the 2022 ACM Gordon Bell Prize for their project, “Pushing the Frontier in the Design of Laser-Based Electron Accelerators With Groundbreaking Mesh-Refined Particle-In-Cell Simulations on Exascale-Class Supercomputers.” The members of […]The post At SC22: ACM Gordon Bell Prize Awarded for Particle-In-Cell Simulations on Frontier, Fugaku, Summit and Perlmutter Supercomputers appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

NVIDIA today announced a multi-year collaboration with Microsoft to build what the companies said will be one of the most powerful AI supercomputers in the world, powered by Microsoft Azure’s supercomputing infrastructure combined with NVIDIA GPUs, networking and stack of AI software to help enterprises train, deploy and scale AI. Azure’s cloud-based AI supercomputer includes […]The post NVIDIA Partners With Azure to Build Massive Cloud AI Supercomputer appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

INCLINE VILLAGE, Nevada, November 15, 2022 – According to a new report published by 650 Group, “Interconnect Semiconductor Market 2022-2027,” the worldwide market for the portion of semiconductors used for interconnect in data centers will approach $25 billion in revenue by 2027. Interconnect functionality is the critical infrastructure that allows systems and semiconductors to talk […]The post 650 Group Research: Data Center Interconnect Semiconductor Market to Approach $25 Billion in 2027 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The new TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, released today at the SC22 conference in Dallas, while short on surprises underlines several significant HPC trends. First the headline: the HPE-built, AMD-powered Frontier system, which was crowned the world's first exascale-class system when the previous TOP500 list was released last spring, remains at the top of the list, delivering nearly three times the power of its nearest rival on the list. Frontier remains at 1.102 exaFLOPS....The post TOP500: Frontier Maintains Big Lead, Europe at Nos. 3 and 4, China Quiet appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Maisons-Laffitte (France), 14th November 2022 – SiPearl, the HPC microprocessor designer for European supercomputers, and AMD announced a joint offering for exascale supercomputing in Europe combining SiPearl’s HPC microprocessor, Rhea, with AMD Instinct accelerators. The latter chip, along with AMD EPYC CPUs, power Frontier, the world’s first exascale-class system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Initially, […]The post SiPearl and AMD in Partnership for Exascale Supercomputing in Europe appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Managers from two AI powerhouses, NVIDIA and NetApp, sat down with us to talk about the multi-year partnership between the two companies, along with its latest joint solutions, which are considerable. From NetApp we have Firmware Engineer Chris Weber and from NVIDIA we have Shawn Kaiser, Senior Product Manager. They discuss a slew of advancements across AI-related hardware and software capabilities including joint activity around NVIDIA’s DGX SuperPOD along with BasePOD, an expansionThe post At SC22: New Offerings from NetApp-NVIDIA Partnership for Scalable, Flexible AI Deployments appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The backdrop of this year's SC22 conference is the rising trade conflict between the U.S. and China and the Administration's increasing restrictions on exports of technology driving the development of advanced chips -- the chips that poweer supercomputers. Our special guest on the @HPCpodcast is author Chris Miller, whose new book, Chip War, is a history and analysis of the growing role of the semiconductor industry in global economic and military competitiveness. Miller is associate professor of international history at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy....The post @HPCpodcast: Chip War Author Chris Miller on the Escalating U.S.-China Technology Trade Conflict appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

MILPITAS, Calif. – NOVEMBER 10, 2022 – Big Memory software comopany MemVerge has announced it has developed software-defined Compute Express Link (CXL) memory management products that run on 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors featuring support for CXL 1.1+ specifications. AMD has a long history of x86 firsts, and the innovation continues in the 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors […]The post MemVerge Unveils Software-Defined CXL Memory Applications for 4th Gen AMD EPYC Processors appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Newark, Calif. – November 10, 2022 – TYAN, a server platform design manufacturer and a MiTAC Computing Technology Corporation subsidiary, today introduced AMD EPYC 9004 Series processor-based server platforms highlighting energy efficiency and performance breakthroughs designed for next generation server architecture for data centers. “Facing the post-COVID economy world, data centers are required to build on more […]The post TYAN Announces Systems Powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC Processors appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.